Ereshkigal I of Mesopotamia

Ereshkigal I of Mesopotamia or Salome Alexandra of Uruk (Sumerian: 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒆠𒃲 DEREŠ.KI.GAL, lit. "Queen of the Great Earth") was the monarch of the city state of Uruk from 82 to 75 BC, before becoming the heir apparent to the Mesopotamian Empire's ruler High Empress Selena in 76 BC, as Selena's last remaining dynastically-approved blood-relative. She ascended to the imperial throne in 77 BC, one year after the death of Selena, taking the personal name of Allatu both as a way to appease her worried Sumerian subjects and to venerate her predecessor as "divine", giving Selena a honorable and sacred status in the Empire. She was known as Ereshkigal the Younger in order to tell her apart from her mother, also named Ereshkigal. A fervent ally of Czar Peter the Great, she assisted in his various wars with bolstering the economy of the Tsardom of Russia and later on the Russian Empire by sending food and hundreds of soldiers to help fight for the Russians.

Early life
Named after Ereshkigal, a incredibly important Mesopotamian goddess, being the reigning Queen of Kur, and described as a newborn as "with good health, a bright smile and the gentlest infant eyes", from an early age Ereshkigal's education (commissioned by her mother, Queen Ereshkigal of Uruk) was put in the hands of several tutors from foreign lands across the world. On 29 January 70 BC, Queen Ereshkigal died, leaving the sovereignty of Uruk to Ereshkigal the Younger's elder half-brother, the weak and sickly Gilgamesh I of Mesopotamia. Throughout this period, Gilgamesh harbored hopes of fathering a future heir but Ereshkigal refused to give up what she saw as her rightful birthright, and the Boyar Duma (a council of Uruk nobles) refused to ratify passing over Ereshkigal, forcing the sickly Gilgamesh to proclaim her his heir apparent.